The BCS apparently deciding that Michigan and Virginia Tech were more deserving of at-large bowl bids than K-State.

Oh, well. At least the Cotton Bowl is going to be more relevant than half the BcS this year.

Mon Dec 05, 2011 12:53 am

L-Town Expatriate

Joined: Thu Apr 22, 2004Posts: 5550Location: Riding a Mule down the Katy Trail to the State Fair

Re: things that suck...

Blowing a 19-point lead on your last-ever trip to the Temple of Doom for the foreseeable future.

Sat Feb 25, 2012 9:13 pm

L-Town Expatriate

Joined: Thu Apr 22, 2004Posts: 5550Location: Riding a Mule down the Katy Trail to the State Fair

Re: things that suck...

Bobby Petrino's career options.

Wed Apr 11, 2012 7:45 pm

Jeffrey Hill

Joined: Thu Apr 29, 2004Posts: 6265Location: In between the bright lights and the far unlit unknown (aka Johnson County, KS)

Re: things that suck...

Gmail, if I set up a filter to label a certain email "bills" and star it, I'm pretty sure it is not spam.

Sat Apr 14, 2012 9:22 pm

merv1618

Joined: Sat Jul 02, 2011Posts: 81

Re: things that suck...

NAQT, though I'm sure it's been said here before.

Mon May 21, 2012 3:38 pm

merv1618

Joined: Sat Jul 02, 2011Posts: 81

Re: things that suck...

Ray Allen.

Sun Jul 15, 2012 7:50 pm

Mewto55555

Joined: Sun Mar 14, 2010Posts: 218

Re: things that suck...

School starting in the middle of August.

Mon Aug 13, 2012 7:41 pm

L-Town Expatriate

Joined: Thu Apr 22, 2004Posts: 5550Location: Riding a Mule down the Katy Trail to the State Fair

Re: things that suck...

The Drought.

Mon Aug 13, 2012 10:56 pm

L-Town Expatriate

Joined: Thu Apr 22, 2004Posts: 5550Location: Riding a Mule down the Katy Trail to the State Fair

Re: things that suck...

Can't believe there's actually merit to this statement for once, but Rockhurst Football. Under the new football points scheme, the 24-7 pummeling at the hands of Bentonville last Friday has the Hawklets currently last place in their district. Liberty and Joplin are in the top half!

Tue Sep 04, 2012 11:26 pm

Charlie Dees

Joined: Tue Jul 25, 2006Posts: 4134Location: Columbia, MO

Re: things that suck...

That's a retardedly large district.

Wed Sep 05, 2012 2:20 am

L-Town Expatriate

Joined: Thu Apr 22, 2004Posts: 5550Location: Riding a Mule down the Katy Trail to the State Fair

Re: things that suck...

ashkenaziCD wrote:

That's a retardedly large district.

It's how the populations played out: seven in KC, plus the largest school not anywhere near I-70. Districts 1 & 2 all involve St. Louis schools, while District 3 is split between St. Charles, West County, and Columbia/Jeff City.

That said, I will be thoroughly and pleasantly surprised if Joplin and Liberty are actually hosting a first-round playoff game come October.

Wed Sep 05, 2012 6:40 am

merv1618

Joined: Sat Jul 02, 2011Posts: 81

Re: things that suck...

Physics textbooks being over 200 #*&@ing dollars used.

Thu Sep 27, 2012 1:42 pm

L-Town Expatriate

Joined: Thu Apr 22, 2004Posts: 5550Location: Riding a Mule down the Katy Trail to the State Fair

Re: things that suck...

Two more sports items that suck:

1) THE YANKEES. Good gravy did they flop against Detroit!

2) Mizzou having to wait another football season before starting their rivalry with Arkansas.

Thu Oct 18, 2012 10:23 pm

FishyFreshman

Joined: Sat Apr 14, 2007Posts: 501

Re: things that suck...

Getting constant invitations and notifications on Facebook about ridiculous apps and Facebook games.

Looking at you, Matt Chadbourne >.>

Sun Nov 25, 2012 1:01 pm

merv1618

Joined: Sat Jul 02, 2011Posts: 81

Re: things that suck...

FishyFreshman wrote:

Getting constant invitations and notifications on Facebook about ridiculous apps and Facebook games.

Looking at you, Matt Chadbourne >.>

Yuuuuuuuuuuup

Sun Nov 25, 2012 2:00 pm

DeckardCain

Joined: Mon Feb 09, 2004Posts: 4379Location: Ozark, Missouri

Re: things that suck...

Well, if everyone wasted all their time on Facebook games as they should, it wouldn't be an issue.

Sun Nov 25, 2012 6:19 pm

Mr. Chekhov

Joined: Tue Mar 08, 2011Posts: 94Location: St. Louis, MO

Re: things that suck...

FishyFreshman wrote:

Getting constant invitations and notifications on Facebook about ridiculous apps and Facebook games.

Hey, I bet his city's probably the size of Tokyo by now with all of the free stuff he gets from bugging his Facebook friends.

Sun Nov 25, 2012 8:48 pm

scphilli

Joined: Wed Nov 01, 2006Posts: 1862Location: St. Louis, MO

Re: things that suck...

Wednesday, WUSTL has an accidental "VA Tech"-duck and cover alarm go off and the emergency texts don't go to me and go to most people out of order (All clear BEFORE threat is on campus = epic fail). Thursday, Dad hurts his leg while on duty during snowpacalypse. Come on Friday!

Thu Feb 21, 2013 7:33 pm

L-Town Expatriate

Joined: Thu Apr 22, 2004Posts: 5550Location: Riding a Mule down the Katy Trail to the State Fair

Re: things that suck...

Norfolk State getting Norfolk'd. In the first round of their conference tournament. Which they're hosting. After going 16-0 in the conference.Therefore, the regular season for them and Middle Tennessee were, for all intents and purposes, for naught.

Ergo, the thing that sucks: regular season beasts choking in one game not getting a bid, whilst 20-loss teams get hot one weekend and are now Hoosier buzzkill next week.

Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:45 pm

DeckardCain

Joined: Mon Feb 09, 2004Posts: 4379Location: Ozark, Missouri

Re: things that suck...

Middle Tennessee deserves an at-large bid, not that they would ever get one. Norfolk State, not so much.

Wed Mar 13, 2013 11:48 pm

merv1618

Joined: Sat Jul 02, 2011Posts: 81

Re: things that suck...

Northwestern's basketball team, as usual...

Thu Mar 14, 2013 8:19 pm

L-Town Expatriate

Joined: Thu Apr 22, 2004Posts: 5550Location: Riding a Mule down the Katy Trail to the State Fair

Re: things that suck...

DeckardCain wrote:

Middle Tennessee deserves an at-large bid, not that they would ever get one. Norfolk State, not so much.

Under the current system, I agree. When the season started, ESPN ranked Norfolk State one step below Central Arkansas. Despite UCA's coach being perhaps the greatest player in the history of Razorback basketball, they've struggled mightily. Again, would be nice if the regular season counted for something other than determining your seed for what essentially is a single-elimination tournament to get into a single-elimination tournament. Ehh, perhaps I'm too sold on Arkansas's Lake Woebegon-style high school playoffs.

Fri Mar 15, 2013 9:05 pm

scphilli

Joined: Wed Nov 01, 2006Posts: 1862Location: St. Louis, MO

Re: things that suck...

Having your phone start SHRIEKING in the middle of the Naqt division 1 final because of an amber alert in Texas?!? And then being unable to get it to immediately stop!

Sat Apr 13, 2013 6:16 pm

scphilli

Joined: Wed Nov 01, 2006Posts: 1862Location: St. Louis, MO

Re: things that suck...

Which obviously doesn't suck as much as for the child and family.

Sat Apr 13, 2013 6:18 pm

merv1618

Joined: Sat Jul 02, 2011Posts: 81

Re: things that suck...

scphilli wrote:

Having your phone start SHRIEKING in the middle of the Naqt division 1 final because of an amber alert in Texas?!? And then being unable to get it to immediately stop!

lololololol

Sat Apr 13, 2013 9:09 pm

L-Town Expatriate

Joined: Thu Apr 22, 2004Posts: 5550Location: Riding a Mule down the Katy Trail to the State Fair

Re: things that suck...

This particular forum having no activity for three months.

Do we need a new title for it?

Thu Oct 10, 2013 6:26 am

L-Town Expatriate

Joined: Thu Apr 22, 2004Posts: 5550Location: Riding a Mule down the Katy Trail to the State Fair

Re: things that suck...

Chiefs in the playoffs. They've only won seven playoff games in their existence (including their 1962 AFL Championship as the Texans), and only one of those victories was in KC.

Sat Jan 04, 2014 8:00 pm

Jeffrey Hill

Joined: Thu Apr 29, 2004Posts: 6265Location: In between the bright lights and the far unlit unknown (aka Johnson County, KS)

Re: things that suck...

Because of the extended time of being way below freezing, I ran most of my faucets at a drip to help avoid issues with possible freezing pipes (since those faucets are near the outside of the house or the garage). Of course, not wanting to waste too much water I only turned it on so it barely dripped about a drop a second. When I got home yesterday, my kitchen sink and downstairs bathtub were no longer draining. I guess if you don't turn the faucet on fast enough (so that there's a thin stream) the water droplets can freeze as they slowly make their way down the inside surface of the pipe and gradually build up like an icicle does (probably in a more horizontal section).

Fortunately, blowing a portable heater into the cabinet under the kitchen sink melted that clog within a couple of minutes. Unfortunately, my downstairs tub basically drains directly down through the slab my house is built on, so there's really no way I could direct a heater toward wherever the blockage was. I tried a bunch of different things (hot water from the faucet, pointing the heater at the tub, stove heated water, etc.) and failed to get it to unclog last night (when it was around 0°F outside). I tried again at lunch today (when it was around 30° outside) and still failed. This evening (in the upper 20's), after running the heater in the enclosed bathroom and several cycles of (not quite boiling) stove heated water, waiting a few minutes, and shop-vac'ing the less-hot water up to repeat, it eventually started flowing again.

So that's how I spent my last two evenings... still much better than a burst pipe could have been!

Tue Jan 07, 2014 10:43 pm

scphilli

Joined: Wed Nov 01, 2006Posts: 1862Location: St. Louis, MO

Re: things that suck...

Jeffrey Hill wrote:

Because of the extended time of being way below freezing, I ran most of my faucets at a drip to help avoid issues with possible freezing pipes (since those faucets are near the outside of the house or the garage). Of course, not wanting to waste too much water I only turned it on so it barely dripped about a drop a second. When I got home yesterday, my kitchen sink and downstairs bathtub were no longer draining. I guess if you don't turn the faucet on fast enough (so that there's a thin stream) the water droplets can freeze as they slowly make their way down the inside surface of the pipe and gradually build up like an icicle does (probably in a more horizontal section).

Fortunately, blowing a portable heater into the cabinet under the kitchen sink melted that clog within a couple of minutes. Unfortunately, my downstairs tub basically drains directly down through the slab my house is built on, so there's really no way I could direct a heater toward wherever the blockage was. I tried a bunch of different things (hot water from the faucet, pointing the heater at the tub, stove heated water, etc.) and failed to get it to unclog last night (when it was around 0°F outside). I tried again at lunch today (when it was around 30° outside) and still failed. This evening (in the upper 20's), after running the heater in the enclosed bathroom and several cycles of (not quite boiling) stove heated water, waiting a few minutes, and shop-vac'ing the less-hot water up to repeat, it eventually started flowing again.

So that's how I spent my last two evenings... still much better than a burst pipe could have been!

Ah...engineering degrees!

Says the social science major...

Wed Jan 08, 2014 3:57 am

L-Town Expatriate

Joined: Thu Apr 22, 2004Posts: 5550Location: Riding a Mule down the Katy Trail to the State Fair

Re: things that suck...

Manchester United.

Also: having to cheer for MUFC today in order to give Fulham hope to stay in the Premier League.

Sat Apr 26, 2014 10:32 am

L-Town Expatriate

Joined: Thu Apr 22, 2004Posts: 5550Location: Riding a Mule down the Katy Trail to the State Fair

Re: things that suck...

The tenth birthday of this board occurring without anyone noticing.

Who else besides Jeff & I are still here from the board's earliest posts?

Wed May 07, 2014 2:22 pm

DeckardCain

Joined: Mon Feb 09, 2004Posts: 4379Location: Ozark, Missouri

Re: things that suck...

L-Town Expatriate wrote:

The tenth birthday of this board occurring without anyone noticing.

Who else besides Jeff & I are still here from the board's earliest posts?

Third registered user!

Yeah, I noticed this a few weeks ago. I started writing up some quizbowl history-esque things to commemorate the anniversary, like my personal top 10 games played list, but never got around to finishing them. I might have to do that now.

Wed May 07, 2014 2:59 pm

L-Town Expatriate

Joined: Thu Apr 22, 2004Posts: 5550Location: Riding a Mule down the Katy Trail to the State Fair

Re: things that suck...

DeckardCain wrote:

L-Town Expatriate wrote:

The tenth birthday of this board occurring without anyone noticing.

Who else besides Jeff & I are still here from the board's earliest posts?

Third registered user!

Yeah, I noticed this a few weeks ago. I started writing up some quizbowl history-esque things to commemorate the anniversary, like my personal top 10 games played list, but never got around to finishing them. I might have to do that now.

I think I was number six.

Wed May 07, 2014 7:04 pm

Jeffrey Hill

Joined: Thu Apr 29, 2004Posts: 6265Location: In between the bright lights and the far unlit unknown (aka Johnson County, KS)

This board's member list sorts in join order by default; not sure if #10 was a spam account or what but that's the one missing (also missing on the old Zetaboards) that explains the offset.

It's crazy how much more active the miscellaneous board used to be... it looks like I had 3368 posts over a 5 1/2 year period before the move to phpbb and over the last 4 1/2 years I've made around 1300. At that rate it'll be around 3 more years before I take the #1 spot from someone who last posted 6 years ago.

Wed May 07, 2014 7:29 pm

scphilli

Joined: Wed Nov 01, 2006Posts: 1862Location: St. Louis, MO

Re: things that suck...

#114! WHAT WHAT! I'm pretty sure being told about this board is the only positive thing Bill Stallard ever did for me. Well that and this little nugget:

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